Applied for stormwater credit, got a 50% fee increase
From:
Dave Garland
Date:
Feb 22 17:09 UTC
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:00:02 +1300 (NZDT), Mark Snyder wrote:
>As Justin said, his property was initially classified as a 0.75 ESU and after
his application was reviewed, it was reclassified to 1.25 ESU. I guess what I'm
wondering is why was it so wrong in the first place?
I don't know about anybody else, but when that fee was first announced,
I went out and paced off my lot to see what my permeable footage was.
Seemed like the prudent thing to do. It turned out to be pretty close
to the default.
I'm guessing the city set things the way they did because anything more
tailored would have required a lot of labor to accomplish.
The engineer thing is ludicrous (unless it's limited to lots of
substantial size, say an acre) and I'd like to invite a CM or city staff
to explain the justification of that. In most cases, any building
inspector or contractor should be able to eyeball things and provide a
"close-enough" estimate.
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